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Details for: PI 140471,
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
, 'SMELL'
Summary
Passport
Taxonomy
Other
Pedigree
IPR
Observation
Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Cultivar:
'SMELL'
Origin:
Donated – Texas, United States
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 1941
PI Assigned:
1941
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
146
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
Availability
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North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Cultivar:
'SMELL'
Origin:
Donated – Texas, United States
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 1941
PI Assigned:
1941
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
21 March 1941.
Texas, United States
Donor(s):
Godfrey, G.H., Agricultural Experiment Station
Accession Names and Identifiers
'SMELL'
Type: Cultivar name
Narrative
Fruit small, orange yellow, somewhat striped while still green.
Cucumis melo
L. subspp.
melo
Genus:
Cucumis
Subgenus:
Cucumis
Section:
Cucumis
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
12564
Verified:
02/06/1996
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucumis melo
L.
(151 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo
(171 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
agrestis
Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chate
(Hasselq.) Sageret
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chito
(C. Morren) Naudin
(1 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
conomon
(Thunb.) Makino
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
dudaim
(L.) Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
momordica
(Roxb.) Duthie & J. B. Fuller
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
texanus
Naudin
(45 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
cantalupo
Ser.
(21 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
(47 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
inodorus
H. Jacq.
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. var.
melo
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bryonia collosa
Rottler
Cucumis collosus
(Rottler) Cogn.
Cucumis trigonus
Roxb.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
melon
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
German
Melone
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian
melone
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji
meron
2
Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993-. Flora of Japan.
Swedish
melon
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
tian gua
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean
chamoe
2
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:93.
Name
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Citations
Dabauza, M., L. A. Roig & V. Moreno.
1991.
Selective Methods for the Recovery of Somatic Hybrids of
Cucumis melo
x
metuliferus
and
C. sativus
x
C. metuliferus
. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:81-84.
Note:
Text.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Fassuliotis, G.
1970.
Resistance of Cucumis spp. to the Root-knot Nematode,
Meloidogyne incognita acrita
. J. Nematol. 2(2):174-178.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Islam, Md. R., M. R. Hossain, D. M. I. Jesse, Hee-Jeong Jung, Hoy-Taek Kim, Jong-In Park, & Ill-Sup Nou.
2020. Development of Molecular Marker Linked with Bacterial Fruit Blotch Resistance in Melon (
Cucumis melo
L.). Genes 11(2):220.
DOI:
10.3390/genes11020220
.
Note:
Publiciation error: PI 140472 listed in Tables 2 & 3 as C. melo subsp. melo from USA. This accession is actually a Citrullus lanatus. PI 140471 C. melo subsp. melo from USA is also referenced 14 times in article. No other C. melo PI number similar to PI 140472.
Number of accessions cited:
22
Malik, A., V. Vashisht, K. Singh, A. Sharma, D. K. Singh, H. Singh, A. Monforte, K. McCreight, & P. S. Dhillon.
20014. Diversity among melon (
Cucumis melo
L.) landraces from the Indo-Gangetic plains of India and their genetic relationship with USA melon cultivars. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 61:1189-1208.
DOI:
10.1007/s10722-014-0101-x
.
Number of accessions cited:
6
Norton, J.D.
1980.
Embryo Culture of
Cucumis
Species
. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 3:34.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Nugent, P. & P. Dukes.
1997. Root-knot Nematode Resistance in
Cucumis
Species. HortScience 32(5):880-881.
DOI:
10.21273/HORTSCI.32.5.880
.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Pitrat, M.
2012. Domestication and diversification of melon. In: Sari, N. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Xth Eucarpia meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucubitaceae, Antalya, Turkey, 15-18 October 2012 31-40.
Note:
Oral Presentations
Number of accessions cited:
4
Santos, L., W. Candido, H. Rabelo, M. Marin, L. Gaion, F. Gomes, M. Camargo, & L. Braz.
2017. Reaction of melon genotypes to
Didymella bryoniae
(Fuckel) Rehm. Chilean J. Agric. Res. 77(1):71-77.
DOI:
10.4067/S0718-58392017000100009
.
Number of accessions cited:
19
Stepansky, A., I. Kovalski, & R. Perl-Treves.
1999. Intraspecific classification of melons (
Cucumis melo
L.) in view of their phenotypic and molecular variation. Pl. Syst. Evol. 217:313-332.
DOI:
10.1007/BF00984373
.
Number of accessions cited:
26
Zuniga, T., J. Jantz, T. Zitter, & M. Jahn.
1999. Monogenic Dominant Resistance to Gummy Stem Blight in Two Melon (
Cucumis melo
) Accessions. Pl. Dis. 83(12):1105-1107.
DOI:
10.1094/PDIS.1999.83.12.1105
.
Number of accessions cited:
3
Pedigree
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
DISEASE
DOWNY MILDEW
RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW CAUSED BY PSEUDOPERONOSPORA CUBENSIS
7 - (1 = LOW SUSCEPTIBILITY, 9 = HIGH SUSCEPTIBILITY)
MELO.DOWNY.MILDEW.94
PI 140471 89ncai01 SD
Not Available
DISEASE
GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
2 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = STEM WITHERED OR DEAD)
28
MELO.GSB.NY.DIS.92.FLD
PI 140471 89ncai01 SD
Not Available
DISEASE
GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
2 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = STEM WITHERED OR DEAD)
MELO.GSB.NY.DIS.92.GH
PI 140471 89ncai01 SD
Not Available
DISEASE
ANTHRACNOSE
RESISTANCE TO ANTHRACNOSE (COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM)
1 - RESISTANT
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
DISEASE
STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT (MYCOSPHAERELLA CITRULLINA)
1 - RESISTANT
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH COLOR
MATURE FLESH COLOR
5 - WHITE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH TASTE
TASTE OF FRUIT FLESH
9 - ACID
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH THICKNESS
FLESH THICKNESS IN CENTIMETERS
2
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT COLOR
MATURE FRUIT COLOR
1 - YELLOW
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT DIAMETER
FRUIT DIAMETER IN CENTIMETERS
4
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT LENGTH
FRUIT LENGTH IN CENTIMETERS
5
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT SHAPE
MATURE FRUIT SHAPE
4 - OBLONG
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT SURFACE
CHARACTER OF FRUIT SURFACE
1 - SMOOTH
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
PHENOLOGY
MATURITY
RELATIVE TIME OF MATURATION
8 - LATE (91-110 DAYS)
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
0.42
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 140471 87ncsi04 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
0.46
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 140471 87ncsi02 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
0.48
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 140471 87ncsi01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
0.62
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 140471 89ncai01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
1.28
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 140471 87ncsi03 SD
Not Available